Pa. soldier killed in Afghanistan

Associated Press

JAMESTOWN, Pa.

The mayor of a small western Pennsylvania town says her grandson, an Army nurse, has been killed by a sniper in Afghanistan.

Jamestown mayor Esther McClimans said that Army reserve Capt. Joshua McClimans was killed Friday near Kabul.

The mayor says Army officials came to the town about 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh to notify Michael McClimans, the soldier’s father. The Army says McClimans was on his way to work at an Army hospital when he was shot.

The soldier would have turned 31 on May 12.

McClimans graduated in 1998 from Jamestown High School, very near the Ohio border. He was a standout wrestler at the school.

In recent months he lived near Akron where he has a 6-year-old son and had planned to continue schooling to become an anesthetic nurse.